Elsa Barkley Brown
| Elsa Barkley Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | African American |
| 🏫 Education | Paul Dunbar School Kent State University |
| 💼 Occupation | Historian
Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies in History |
| 🏢 Organization | Southern Association for Women Historians Association of Black Women Historians |
| 🏡 Home town | Louisville, Kentucky |
| 🏅 Awards | Anna Julia Cooper Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Black Women's Studies |
| 🌐 Website | http://www.barkleyb.com |
Elsa Barkley Brown is an American historian and educator. As of 2018, Brown works as an associate professor of history and African American studies and as a faculty member of the African American Studies and American Studies Department at the University of Maryland.
Brown's focus of research includes African American political culture, Black gender studies, Black women's arts and culture, political narrative, and theories of collectivity and citizenship.[1][2] She has also researched the history of the black community in Richmond, Virginia and the history of women during the Civil Rights movement.[3][4]
Early life and education
Brown attended the Paul Dunbar School in Kentucky from kindergarten until the second grade, upon which point she was sent to Prentice Elementary School due to Kentucky experimenting with desegregation.[5] The school was formerly an all white school and Brown was one of a small group of children that were transferred.[5] Brown has stated that she experienced her first encounter of racism at the school during the fourth grade, over an award for having the highest academic honors, which she won. Her prize was to have a trip to a local historical landmark, however the white women's organization that was sponsoring the trip did not allow a "colored child" to win the scholarship.[5]
Brown married and had children. In March 1971, she received an acceptance letter to a graduate history program in Indianapolis, Indiana, but could not fly to the requested interview as she was pregnant. The school representatives responded that "a woman with a small child does not belong in graduate school", which brought to her attention the stereotype of mothers being unable to commit to school and fulfill all expectations.[5] She later attended Kent State University in 1974, where she received a Ph.D. in History. While attending, she did not mention that she had children as her professor had made it clear that she would not have been accepted if he knew she had children.[5] She later brought her children to meet him after school was completed to show that women with children could be successful.[5]
Career and impact
Brown finished her first year of teaching in 1979 and, in the mid 1980s, worked as a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.[5] She eventually moved to upstate New York, where she taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1988.[5]
In Fall 2006, Elsa Barkley Brown was the only black woman working in the history department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was soon joined by another black woman, which Brown stated was the first time she had ever worked in the same department as another black woman.[5]
The University of Michigan has a chair named for her, the Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor of African American Women’s History.[6]
Select bibliography
Journal articles
- "Mothers of Mind," SAGE 6 (Summer 1989): 4. 33[7]
- “Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14, 3 (Spring 1989), 610-633
- Brown, Elsa Barkley (1992). ""What Has Happened Here": The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics". Feminist Studies. 18 (2): 295–312. doi:10.2307/3178230. JSTOR 3178230.[8][9]
- “Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom,” Public Culture, 7, 1 (Fall 1994), 107-146[10][11]
- “Mapping the Terrain of Black Richmond,” Journal of Urban History, 21, 3 (March 1995), 295-346 (with Gregg D. Kimball)
Book chapters and book
- Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1993, associate editor)[12][13]
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- "Race, Identity, and Political Activism: The Shifting Contours of the African American Public Sphere" (1995, in The Black Public Sphere))[14]
- “Imaging Lynching: African American Women, Communities of Struggle, and Collective Memory” (1995, in African American Women Speak Out On Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas)
- “To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women’s Political History, 1865-1880” (1997, in African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1960)[11]
- Major Problems in African American History (2000)
- Vol. 1: From Slavery to Freedom
- Vol. 2: From Freedom to “Freedom Now”
- “Memory Work: Quilts in Southern African-American History” (2003, in African-American Quilts: 60 Historic Textiles from the Farmer-James Collection ca. 1860-1947)
- "Bodies of Histories" (2008, chapter in Telling Histories)
- “Stephanie E. Pogue and the Artist’s Veil" (2008, in Arabesque)
References
- ↑ Lewis, Reina; Mills, Sara (2003). Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Taylor & Francis. p. 165. ISBN 9780415942751. Search this book on
- ↑ "Elsa Barkley Brown". Department of Women's Studies at Univ. of Maryland. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
- ↑ "Speaker Page: Elsa Barkley Brown -- Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium. June 19-20, 2003". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
- ↑ Jr, Henry Louis Gates; Steele, Claude; Bobo, Lawrence D.; Dawson, Michael; Jaynes, Gerald; Crooms-Robinson, Lisa; Darling-Hammond, Linda (2012-05-24). The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present. Oxford University Press. p. 495. ISBN 9780195188059. Search this book on
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Barkley Brown, Elsa (2008). "Bodies of History". Telling Histories: Black Women in the Ivory Tower: 215–226.
- ↑ "Emory picks U. of Michigan administrator for provost". Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, Georgia. 11 March 2004. p. JB2. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ↑ James, Joy (1997). Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals. Psychology Press. pp. 145–147. ISBN 9780415917636. Search this book on
- ↑ Lewis, Reina; Mills, Sara (2003). Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Taylor & Francis. pp. 165, 183. ISBN 9780415942751. Search this book on
- ↑ Ehrensperger, Kathy (2004-04-15). That We May Be Mutually Encouraged: Feminism and the New Perspective in Pauline Studies. A&C Black. pp. 103–104. ISBN 9780567026408. Search this book on
- ↑ Radway, Janice A.; Gaines, Kevin; Shank, Barry; Eschen, Penny Von (2009-03-16). American Studies: An Anthology. John Wiley & Sons. p. 227. ISBN 9781405113519. Search this book on
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Taylor, Quintard; Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson (2008-08-01). African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 111. ISBN 9780806139791. Search this book on
- ↑ Jones, Maxine D.; Hine, Darlene Clark (1996). "Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. 2 vols". The Journal of American History. 82 (4): 1663. doi:10.2307/2945451. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2945451.
- ↑ Chargois, Josephine A. (1994). "Book review -- Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Volumes I and II) edited by Darlene Clark Hine with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn". The Journal of Negro Education. 63 (2): 267.
- ↑ Brown, Thomas J. (2008-09-23). Reconstructions: New Perspectives on Postbellum America. Oxford University Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780199723973. Search this book on
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